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Don't you think this is downright depressing?

WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.

Democrats did not line up to challenge him. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has yet to schedule floor debate and hinted last week that senators may not be able to finish health care this year.

Nonetheless, the House vote provided an important lesson in how to succeed with less-than-perfect party unity, and one that Senate Democrats may be able to adapt. House Democrats overcame their own divisions and broke an impasse that threatened the bill after liberals grudgingly accepted tougher restrictions on abortion funding, as abortion opponents demanded.

Yeah, NONETHELESS.
Oh well, Nancy was on top for a m inute, now she can run for Prez!

Not so sure about depressing. Unsurprising, though. What will EVENTUALLY be worked out will contain a portion of Column A, a portion of Column B. Just like every other major bill that's ever been passed by Congress and signed by the President....any President.

Thank God for the way the Founding Fathers put our government together. One set of representatives do not have the final say on bills. The Senate understands what the House didn't. Those that voted for this piece of crap legislation in the House will most likely be looking for a job in the economy they have helped perpetuate in the very near future. I hope the ones up for 2010 reelection get busy on the economy. I'd hate for them to join the unemployment ranks. It will give the rest of the unemployed a bad name.